John Carmack: Spend More Time in Debuggers Than Writing Code
tetsuoai · x · 2026-08-20
A clip from the Lex Fridman podcast featuring John Carmack argues that developers should spend more time inside debuggers like GDB than writing new code. Carmack suggests that deeply observing the program's runtime state leads to better understanding, more effective bug fixing, and performance optimization compared to blind coding.
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